Tag Archives: Lincoln Village Juvenile Detention Center

On January 11, 2016 Gynnya McMillen, a 16 year old African-American girl from Shelbyville, KY being detained on misdemeanor assault charges was found dead in her holding cell at the Lincoln Village Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Elizabethtown, KY.                       …

Last Saturday, audio tapes in the death of 16-year-old Gynnya McMillen were released, and they seem to corroborate excessive uses of force and negligence after the fact from the detention center. According to the tapes originally released by CBS News, a sheriff’s deputy planning to transported McMillen to court arrived …